This song will always remind me of Miami Vice.  I was in 6^th grade and spending a Friday night at my friend Tammy’s house.  She was totally in love with Don Johnson, as were many red-blooded American females in 1985.  I didn’t really have a thing for him as much as she did, but I fucking loved the show and I had a huge Crockett and Tubbs fold-out poster on my bedroom wall.

Who in 1985 was cooler than Crockett and Tubbs?

“I Want to Know What Love Is,” a great power ballad that was everywhere, was featured on this particular episode of Miami Vice, and it was a very sensual scene, I think between Tubbs and an ex-lover.  Tammy and I were in her parents’ basement sitting on pillows on the floor when the song came on.  We were very still, absorbing everything on the screen. …